Anna Luiza Coli has extensive experience as a researcher. Initially trained in Philosophy, she holds a master’s degree in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art from UFMG and also from the European Erasmus Mundus Europhilosophie program, with a focus on German and French phenomenology. She completed her doctorate in 2021 as a joint supervising fellow at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal in Germany and Charles University Prague in the Czech Republic. She also conducted postdoctoral research at two institutions — first at the State University of Londrina (UEL), where she co-founded the Phenomenology Research Center, and also at UFMG, as a CAPES-PrInt fellow, working on the creation of the Democracy and Disinformation Studies Network (REDD), currently linked to the IEAT Research Groups program. Anna Coli is a member of research groups linked to contemporary aesthetics and philosophical thought in the humanities. His topics of interest include phenomenology, disinformation, artificial intelligence, aesthetics and philosophy of art.
Project: Digital Sovereignty and Politics
This research addresses the reconfiguration of the concept of sovereignty in the digital age, starting from the tension between control and authority. It argues that the transformations introduced by digital technologies, especially the centrality of the data economy, the actions of large technology corporations, and the growing role of algorithmic mediation, render insufficient an understanding of sovereignty based solely on the control of flows and borders. The concept of digital sovereignty recovers a theoretical discussion from the classical debate to bring current sovereignty closer to the category of metapolitics—that is, the State’s capacity to define what counts as a political issue and which actors are legitimate in this field. This shift is important in a scenario where megacorporations in technology operate and have geopolitical weight comparable to that of the most influential countries. We seek to show how the growing dependence on foreign technological infrastructures, coupled with the current crisis of informational and epistemic mediations, weakens state autonomy, institutions, and the conditions for democratic exercise. The scenario shows that the regulation of platforms is an urgent and necessary measure, yet insufficient to curb the new dynamics of dependence. Finally, the research addresses how current wars (especially the most recent one between the US and Iran) highlight the boundary where massive investment in digital infrastructure and the development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems becomes intertwined with military objectives of extermination.